Iran protests have revived the 2011 Arab Spring debate. But what exactly the economic scorecard of countries that saw ...
From Tunisia to Syria, the uprisings of 2011 showed how revolutions often give way to chaos or renewed authoritarianism, a ...
Imagine living in a country where a 48-year-old decree, originally written to crush 1970s labor strikes, is the highest law ...
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From the ashes of the Arab Spring

On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north ...
Egypt is the biggest, most influential country in the Arab world, and today's elections will have a major impact region wide. With 40 parties and thousands of candidates for the lower house of ...
Eight years after triggering the Arab Spring, Tunisia is held up as a model of democratic transition, while other countries that experienced the mass uprisings are gripped by chaos, repression or war.
With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...
Over at The Corner, Andrew McCarthy has inaugurated what I suspect will be a long-running series called “Annals of the Arab Spring.” A couple of days ago, Andy dilated on the Egyptian demand that ...
Next week, the UN General Assembly may be asked to recognize a Palestinian state, with the potential for isolating both Israel and the United States. Meantime, Israel is in trouble with its only ...
Plenty of people are comparing Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring and there's now even a catchy name: the American Autumn. With worldwide attention to the protests growing, the now-hardened ...
U.S. intelligence analysts, like most American observers, have often referred to the process unfolding in the Middle East as the "Arab Spring," with its implicit message of democratic rebirth and ...
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) – Coverage of the Arab Spring dominated the Peabody Awards when the oldest honors in broadcasting were handed out Wednesday at the University of Georgia. CNN, Al Jazeera English and ...